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[01 Jan 2010|11:40pm] |
SO. 2009! You came and went! A lot of things happened this year, obvs. I finished my senior project and graduated college with honors (but not before almost dying the night before.)
I moved to ~Williamsburg~ to "job hunt" and lived with  chungguksaram! I moved into an actual apartment not made for one and a half people with three people living in it with my darlings Rachel Browne and Jax! I got a job at the Met (temporarily!) I went to and "performed" at a lot of fucking amazing shows all year round, and I almost got to go to Australia and Tokyo for free (though both of those things fell through.) I drank. A LOT. I took a lot of photos! I got a twitter and became a fucking internet menace again. I gained and lost probably 30 pounds. I got my first tattoo! STUFFFFFF.
( 2009 IN PICTURESCollapse )
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| VERY IMPORTANT NYC-CENTRIC ANNOUNCEMENT |
[24 Dec 2009|07:16am] |
ATTN NEW YORKERS:
If you are not spending your NYE either with me (and my BFFS the zombie Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt (zombies because I recently had to kill 3/4 of them.)), getting completely insane with live mural-painting, six set/costume changes (I will, at one point, be a glam lava flow), live ice carving, asteroids, space ships, and breakfast in Bushwick at Shea Stadium BK
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Going until the year 2015 with  horrorvacuii and her sweet-ass gypsy family down at Mehanata (Because seriously, they will go all night, go to a diner, and then just keep going. I sometimes hope they will turn into the flying multi-generation party on a cloud from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe series.) on the LES
THEN YOU ARE WASTING THE END OF A PERFECTLY AMAZING/TERRIBLE/BORING/ETC DECADE.
Either way, there will be love, tears, a lot of booze, shouting, making out, and inevitably, a bloody guy or three, and no one else brings it like we do.
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[01 Nov 2009|09:49pm] |
Trapeze episode 2: Get some fucking briefs and wear looser pants so it's not always sticking out, you stupid douche.
Halloween was a B-. But my costume came out pretty sweet, even if no one got it.
I cleaned my room and watched Dexter today! Tomorrow I am contacting negatives for the first time since Apriiil!
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[24 Oct 2009|01:47am] |
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Fairy Tail is shockingly awful, and the budget is SHIT. But omg Darker Than Black 2. and Trapeze once I get past the ugly-ass character designs.
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[16 Oct 2009|10:44pm] |
I HAVE BEEN A MESS THESE PAST TWO WEEKS. I cannot wait to get my friend's spare bottle of Zyrtec. I am a bit drunk off of Gallery Opening Wine, and some bears took me out for dinner! (No, it's okay, they're my friends.)
Snore.
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[06 Oct 2009|09:32pm] |
I AM VERY TIRED. I am going to sleep at 10, because you know, waking up at 6:30 AM.
Also, hungry :(, but too tired to make food.
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[27 Sep 2009|12:37pm] |
The internet needs to STOP. A little while after my maternal grandpa died, I got spam mail from "Irving Braun" (He was Irving Branman). Okay, so kind of weird?
Today I got spam with a name creepily close to my other dead grandfather's name. Like, TWO LETTERS OFF CLOSE. (Davis Pettey vs David Petteys.) (Okay, three letters, but I don't count that second e as a letter in my mind.)
(Is it weird that I totally checked Facebook's PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW that has been shoving my father's profile on my sister and I for months for the correct spelling of his last name, despite it having been my last name for quite a few years? But then again, we pronounced it all differently even then.)
STOP TRYING TO CONTACT ME FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE VIA SPAM GRANDPAS. It's a little weird when you try to sell me viagra and penis elargements.
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[25 Sep 2009|01:10am] |
Tomorrow: Make myself pretty and try and find some shitty restaurant to work at until I find something better/shoot myself because I'm doing food service again.
At the very least, I am working on photo pretty frequently, scanning stuff, and I updated my website. It's got recent work (Which will be updated, rotated, and moved around on a regular basis), my senior project, some updated convention stuff (more to come when I scan the NYAF stuff from two years ago, and maybe some B&W???), some performance stuff I started last year that I should (and will) continue when the mood strikes me, and one section I am not entirely sure of the purpose of. It'll come to me eventually.
It includes things like this:
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Sam Branman.com
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[09 Sep 2009|02:52am] |
UGH I AM A TWITTER MENACE. It's awful. I already thought like a twitter and basically used my lj for that purpose waaya back in the day as many of you can remember. I will probably not be shipping my twats here, because omg obnoxious If anyone wants to follow me and have me pollute their feed it is blamsamran. Most of my friends are going to Europe tomorrow, and I have six rolls of film that are waiting to be picked up and an interview for this internship that will give me darkroom access. I made a mix that I will mail tomorrow and it will hopefully be well-recieved by the person it was made for. I did some "sweet" collage work and wacky makeshift packaging. It has a secret too!
Yay. Still no job, but a house. Come visit New York kids! For now I am watching crime drama re-runs on various horrid basic cable channels. HELLO COLD CASE ON TNT.
I've been scanning on my new-old scanner I claimed from my mother. Website update soon! Like, a real one! That will get updated regularily!
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[01 Sep 2009|08:47pm] |
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Moving is really strange, because this time it's for real. I have a lease and everything wtf. PSEUDO ADULTHOOD. Still need a job. I have also realized that 80% of what I own is BOOKS.
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[26 Aug 2009|04:10pm] |
NEW YORKEEEERS. All of you in the NYC area should come to my friend's show at Death By Audio (S. 2nd and Wythe in Williamsburg, off the Bedford L or Marcy JM). It is $7 the doors open at 8, and wll promise at least a little bit of your chilhood and temporary flash blindness.
I just spent a very long time on Staten Island and now I need to shower.
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[22 Aug 2009|07:21pm] |
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My face is exoloding. (Heatwave? Sweaty pillow?) I slept on Staten sland twice this week because Ashley has air conditioning. I have some writing to do, and I cannot wait to move to the new place.
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[19 Aug 2009|11:23pm] |
I HAVE A FUCKING APARTMENT IN PARK SLOPE.
Still no job though, oops. But things will be okay, at least I have excitement and soon I'll have my own bed back! I have accomplished some things this summer, and most of them involve marathonning things.
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[09 Aug 2009|02:35pm] |
I HAVE ARMS.
I do!
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[03 Aug 2009|12:32am] |
You know, it's very rude when someone asks you to do something for them, you do it, and then they not only don't use it, they keep asking you to do it?
RUDE.
Dan Deacon/No Age/Deerhunter omg I could have died in the pit.
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[27 Jul 2009|12:17am] |
My life has been somewhat interesting as of late, despite no job prospects and no real idea where I'm living come mid-August!
On the other hand, another week, another terrible, awful, no good rehashed episode of Haruhi. A truly terribly animated episode at that! Luckily I have seven seasons of Voyager to watch, as well as quite a few fabulous series this season. (Bakemonogatari, Canaan, Umineko, moar Zetsubou Sensei, Eden of the East, as well as watching Kurenai, and rewatching Melody of Oblivion.)
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[20 Jul 2009|10:30pm] |
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I hate you, KyoAni. season "2" of Haruhi is shit.
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[20 Jul 2009|01:18am] |
Here is a mix I made for the radio.
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[29 Jun 2009|05:57pm] |
OH WAIT, HAHAHAHA. I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT THE TWIST IS NOW.
omg, shut up horrible movie.
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[29 Jun 2009|05:34pm] |
I am watching a terrible, terrible movie. Ryan Phillipe in the ~the future~, doing his best Rorsharch/Batman voice while running around in a dystopian future that looks like a gothic cathedral jizzed everywhere and religion ~controls everything~ looking for someone called "The Individual" so he can kill him. SHUT UP.
Meanwhile, in the present, Eva Green is a sad suicidal artsy Mini-Helena Bonham-Carter, and some other people are sad too. and much more interesting than Ryan Philippe wearing a mask and growling a lot in an awful, awful cheesy trying-too-hardboiled shithouse. FACE TATTOOS! PUNCHING!
Oh, and I'm already calling it, Eva Green is gonna manage to successfully kill herself and cause Ryan Phillipe to awfully exist.
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